The patch shows three cosmonaut figures, joining hands as is traditional for Soyuz crews, at the moment of successfully reaching orbit.

The name of the spaceship is depicted in large Cyrillic characters and contains some play with letters, some doubling as both a letter and a number. Also, the silhouette of the Soyuz spaceship is part of one of the letters. Snaking through the design is the constellation of Scorpio, with its mayor star Antares larger than the rest, as ANTARES is the callsign of the commander of Soyuz TMA-03M.